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Tewkesbury Bread Riots (24th June 1795)
Esther Macmaster(21), Mary Aldridge(16), Sarah Kinson(16) Ann Mayall, née Kings(22),and Happy Fielder(19)

The winter of 1794/95, 5 years after the French revolution, was exceptionally harsh: January temperatures averaged at -3,1°C and heavy flooding of the rivers Severn and Avon hit Tewkesbury in February. There was already a lack of wheat, due to bad harvests in hot and dry 1794. Supplying the army and navy, who were fighting the French, diminished the stocks further. By summer 1795 the price of bread had doubled. Moreover, corn merchants and millers speculated with grain, hoarding it and selling it at a higher price elsewhere. This resulted in bread riots throughout England.

On the 25th June, a day after the Tewkesbury riot, the Town Clerk wrote to the Home Secretary: .."Several Quantities of Wheaten flour were forcibly taken out of the barges at the Quay & carried off by divers Persons, chiefly Females- the civil force was convened with all possible Dispatch, & after much difficulty and confusion, the Riot was suppressed, & the ringleaders committed to the county rather than the Borough Goal, as most secure……"
Esther Macmaster(21), Mary Aldridge(16), Sarah Kinson(16) Ann Mayall, née Kings(22),and Happy Fielder(19) were arrested and sentenced to six months imprisonment in Gloucester Goal.
The women were 5 of about 200 people, recognized by the witnesses for ‘asking, where the barge was going', 'being active in the crowd', 'taking flour from the sacks and taking it away in their aprons’.
They had to serve their full sentence, in spite of an intercession by the local Parish Priest and a petition by a prospective MP. They were fortunate to be incarcerated in the modern new goal in Gloucester, which supplied them with a cell of their own and food. In many other parts of the country male and female rioters were sentenced to death by hanging.

After being discharged from the goal, they probably lived a rather ordinary life as they are only mentioned in local records for their marriages, baptisms and the deaths of their children.

You'll find more details on the website of The Tewkesbury Historical Society: https://tewkesburyhistory.org/The-Tewkesbury-Bread-Riot-of-1795

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Tewkesbury Bread Riots (24th June 1795)
Esther Macmaster(21), Mary Aldridge(16), Sarah Kinson(16) Ann Mayall, née Kings(22),and Happy Fielder(19)

The winter of 1794/95, 5 years after the French revolution, was exceptionally harsh: January temperatures averaged at -3,1°C and heavy flooding of the rivers Severn and Avon hit Tewkesbury in February. There was already a lack of wheat, due to bad harvests in hot and dry 1794. Supplying the army and navy, who were fighting the French, diminished the stocks further. By summer 1795 the price of bread had doubled. Moreover, corn merchants and millers speculated with grain, hoarding it and selling it at a higher price elsewhere. This resulted in bread riots throughout England.

On the 25th June, a day after the Tewkesbury riot, the Town Clerk wrote to the Home Secretary: .."Several Quantities of Wheaten flour were forcibly taken out of the barges at the Quay & carried off by divers Persons, chiefly Females- the civil force was convened with all possible Dispatch, & after much difficulty and confusion, the Riot was suppressed, & the ringleaders committed to the county rather than the Borough Goal, as most secure……"
Esther Macmaster(21), Mary Aldridge(16), Sarah Kinson(16) Ann Mayall, née Kings(22),and Happy Fielder(19) were arrested and sentenced to six months imprisonment in Gloucester Goal.
The women were 5 of about 200 people, recognized by the witnesses for ‘asking, where the barge was going', 'being active in the crowd', 'taking flour from the sacks and taking it away in their aprons’.
They had to serve their full sentence, in spite of an intercession by the local Parish Priest and a petition by a prospective MP. They were fortunate to be incarcerated in the modern new goal in Gloucester, which supplied them with a cell of their own and food. In many other parts of the country male and female rioters were sentenced to death by hanging.

After being discharged from the goal, they probably lived a rather ordinary life as they are only mentioned in local records for their marriages, baptisms and the deaths of their children.

You'll find more details on the website of The Tewkesbury Historical Society: https://tewkesburyhistory.org/The-Tewkesbury-Bread-Riot-of-1795

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